things from the past you dont see now

DoraMarr - you can still buy Caramac in any shop which sells chocolate.

Sea-side trips on a steam train. Remember the sound, clickety - clack, clickety-clack.

Iced gems and Arctic Roll are also still for sale.

Evening in Paris. I used to buy it for my mum every year for her birthday. It was about 3/6d in Woolies

Chinese skipping
Bags of potato puffs

I bought the Vesta meals in poundstretcher the other day. Haven’t eaten them yet though.

Oooo yes, potato puffs. They were lovely.

Those white lacy stretchy gloves i had to wear to sunday school

Funny how you can't think of anything till you read the posts! Noananna My brothers and sisters had rose hip syrup in dinkies. My mother thought dummies were common but they still sucked the air out of the dinkies when the syrup was finished and their teeth turned out to be appalling. We used to pick rose hips for 3d a pound which were collected by school to make the syrup. Anybody else do that?

Texan chocolate bars which made your teeth stick together and mackintoshs 'golden cup'

Gone are the days when we used to collect tokens when buying petrol and then exchange them for a 'free' drinking glass'

public wash=houses, with slipper baths/ individual baths for ablutions, and communal laundry, with those enormous pressing machines, and ingenious rails for drying over hot pipes....
or are you all too posh ?

Specks, there is a lovely little hardware shop in Southwold where you can still buy tins of Vim. ?

This thread has reminded me of the time my mum was using her electric mangle on her Hotpoint Countess washing machine and the pussy bow on her blouse got caught in the mangle!! Thank goodness it had an emergency bar which she was able to push up and it stopped the mangle instantly.
My poor mum was so shaken she had to have a cup of tea and a cigarette before she could continue

Oh yes, I remember the mangle. Mum used to do the washing in a gas fired boiler, carry it outside where I would turn the handle of the mangle whilst she fed the washing through.

Mr Pearce who used to travel around the area every Sunday morning on a bike with a big box on the front selling chocolate bars and sweets

Cookery baskets, we used to get a wooden tomato basket with a metal handle.
I got my dad to gloss paint the wood and we bound the metal handle with an old suede belt.
The base of the basket was flat and the dishes we carried home did not spill.

Tea chests - very useful when flitting.

Sharon103: "Sea-side trips on a steam train. Remember the sound, clickety - clack, clickety-clack."

Bishops Lydeard to Minehead on the West Somerset Railway?

Suspender belts. Roll on suspender belts. Lisle stockings. When I was a young nurse the make was called 'Durene" and they were quite thick and could be darned.

Has anyone mentioned green shield stamps. I still have several books in a drawer somewhere. yes it really is that bad in my house
Can I exchange them now is my question? Can I keep them for another 50 years and what will they be worth?
I'm sure I'd saved almost enough for an iron, a toaster, an electric razor or a watch.

Marilla.. Is it old stock lol.. I haven't seen Vim for years!
And paddyann i am ridiculously excited that marathons are making a come back (albeit not for long).. I think i need to get out more

You can buy Vim on Amazon, although it's now in a plastic pack.

Andrews Liver Salts, in a black and white tin I think.

Fry’s Five Boys chocolate bars.

Bubble cars.

Liberty bodices.

Instant Whip.

Free plastic carnations with Omo.

Fake tiger tails tied to petrol caps. "I've got a tiger in my tank".

Stick on plastic bullet holes on your windscreen.

Jubbly frozen drinks in a tetrahedron packet of heavy waxed cardboard.

And a Wrigley's chewing gum dispenser that gave a free packet if the dial was in the right position.